This week’s football predictions and sweet videos and links

College Predictions are done by John Harris each week for my weekly football newsletter. The pro predictions are mine.

Missouri vs. Kansas in Kansas City – Those of you, at the beginning of the season, who had MU v. KU for the Big 12 North championship game and a potential shot at a national championship, raise your hand. That’s what I thought. No one raised his/her hand. Not only is this for a shot at both titles, there’s a potential Heisman Trophy trip to New York on the line for both quarterbacks – Missouri’s Chase Daniel and Kansas’ Todd Reesing. I picked Missouri before the season and the Tigers are actually better than I thought they would be. I think Kansas will have a tough time stopping freshman star Jeremy Maclin, even with Jim Thorpe Award snubee Aqib Talib covering him for much of the game. I like the way that the Missouri offensive staff uses formations to their advantage and, of course, the Tigers throw the ball to the tight end…a lot. I like that. Go Tigers!

Missouri – 38 vs. Kansas – 31

Texas at Texas A&M – Since Sean and I started our show in the afternoon, we must have received, oh, like a hundred emails that just say 12-7. 12-7. That win is nothing but a memory after the season that TAMU has had in 2007. But, this is A&M’s chance to right all the wrongs of this season. Unfortunately, that won’t happen – the Aggies tackle like a bunch of jr. high players. That worries me incessantly against Jamaal Charles and even Colt McCoy. I’d like to think that the Aggie offense will show up this week, but unless it’s 15 carries apiece for Jorvorskie, McGee and Goodson, I don’t want to watch. The Aggies are who they are and who we thought they would be – a slow, plodding, power team that has to pound on the Longhorns up front to win the game. They might do this enough to put points on the board, but not enough points on the board to win.

Texas – 27 at TAMU – 19

USC at Arizona State – What a nice, tasty Thanksgiving night treat! Yes, even if the Trojans aren’t quite as good as Trojan teams in the past. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the Sun Devils this season, in particular, the gritty play of quarterback Rudy Carpenter. But, I think that the USC defensive brain trust will show him a number of looks, a lot of nickel and dime, and some blitz packages that’ll give him some problems. USC running back Joe McKnight will get loose out on the perimeter and give the Sun Devils a headache.

USC – 31 at Arizona State – 23

Thanksgiving Day Games

Packers at Lions: I know everyone gets hyped up on the Lions on Thanksgiving and this year they are better than usual, but the Packers focus and resolve seems to be better than usual and…. who are we kidding? Roy Williams and the Lions are going to get off for a big game and a win.

Packers – 20 Lions – 28

Jets at Cowboys: The Jets are flying high after their win over the Steelers and truth be told, they are better than their record would indicate. Dallas, however, has the type of passing game that will cause trouble for rookie CB Revis and I expect the Cowboys defensive front to pressure Clemens all day.

Jets -14 Cowboys – 31

Colts at Falcons: The Colts seem to be putting it in cruise control right now just getting ready for the playoffs. They looked lifeless against the Chiefs last week, but lifeless only begins to describe what we saw from the Falcons against the Bucs. Harrington is a better option at QB, but at this stage, the Falcons players might be packing it in.

Colts – 24 Falcons – 17

I don’t think this lady feels all that great about the Saban hire now but she sure was loving it when it went down.

Here is a quick analogy regarding my appearance at the 1560 “Juego-palooza” party on November 9th. The squirrel is me and the fermented pumpkins he ate are the bull-blaster shots I had.

• Have you seen a RB go from trash heep to A-lister to trash heep quicker than Lamont Jordan? After a fantastic start to the season, Jordan hasn’t done much of anything since his injury and the Raiders are considering cutting him.

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I, myself can’t stand the smell or taste of bull blaster’s any longer, but for some reason this is the shot of choice between my friends and I continually get stuck having to prove my manhood thus I knock them down. I once made the mistake of saying I preferred a shot of wild turkey instead of a bull blaster. That was a bad choice. to say the least.

U. Alabama fans are the biggest, most embarrassing idiots in the entire nation. They dwarf the mental dwarves of U. Texas and even the Houston-based Cowboys fans.Growing up and living among them as I did until I was in my mid-20s has caused me to suffer clinical depression and borderline personality disorder that years of counseling and drug therapy have managed to allay.Thank Gaea I left there years ago, first for Oklahoma and finally here. I would probably have climbed onto the roof of a mid-rise building with a high-powered rifle somewhere before now had I not made my escape.

LANCE , I CANT GET THE PICTURE OUT OF MY HEAD. I KNOW YOU SAID DONT CHECK IT OUT BUT I COULDNT HELP MYSELF AND KNOW I AM RUINED. I HAVE NOT TOOK A CRAP LIKE THAT IN YEARS. ALL I KEEP SEEING IS CORN , CORN , AND MORE CORN!!!!

Glad to hear you on the radio my man. When I do get up that early it’s refreshing to hear some decent sportstalk. The signal reaches all the way to Lufkin now! Me and my daughter have played that drunken squirel 5 or 6 times bro that’s is some funny (stuff).

What ya think about Dexter? Screwed or not?

Dexter is the best. While I’m getting sick of other shows that I Tivo like Prison Break and even Weeds, I always look forward to Dexter.

Wuddup LZ, great videos and blog as usual. I’ve got a fantasy question for you. In one of my leagues, Shaun Alexander and Rudi Johnson were my top two picks, and I held on to them for too long, so I’m sitting in last place, but I’ve made some decent waiver pickups and my team is actually decent now. The only reason I’m still keeping track is to play the spoiler role. This week I’m playing the first place team, who happens to be one of my roommates. If I beat him, he goes from 1st to 4th, and closer to missing the playoffs. Nothing would make me happier. I’m off to a good start w/ Ryan Grant playing badass yesterday, and the rest of my lineup is set except for my D. Tennessee is my current D, but I’m concerned about them playing high octane Cincy (especially with Haynesworth potentially on the shelf again.). Should I roll w/ them, or JAX (playing 31st ranked O BUF), KC vs. OAK, or NO vs. the Testes Verde/Carr led CAR.

Side note:

How terrible were the top drafted RB’s this year? I have a feeling that with the majority of NFL teams using the 2 RB system now, the elite WR’s are going to start being picked where some of the so called elite RB’s were in the past.

Forget the notion of WRs going ahead of RBs as a group. You will always see RBs drafted higher because there a teams who have two WRs who can be very good fantasy options, but you’ll almost never see a team with two good fantasy RBs. Just a simple game of math – owners have to get starting RBs because they’ll be gone fairly early in the draft. As for your fantasy question, I would start Jax.

I already have 77 point in my yahoo league thanks to Brett Favre, touchdowns from J. Addai and D. Clark, and awesome “D” from “BIG-D”. Anyway, I picked up Chester Taylor on the waiver wire, but I also have B. Westbrook that has been a fantasy savior. Who should I start? Taylor or Westbrook?

p.s.

Can’t say it enough that I LOVE that you’re back on the radio.

Later.

db

Good to be back on the air. As for your backs, I would usually say Taylor since Westbrook is going against the Pats, but they will have to throw it a ton and he figures to get plenty of catches too.

Lance , This is getting stupid! I was never a Van Gundy fan at all and can’t believe i am even thinking this right now, but damn bring him back. Steve would have already been in the game and i am sorry but this is not a playoff team with hayes and rafer starting gimme a break!

Adelman be a man and don’t hold back steve just because you don’t want to give in , please. Start scola and james and bring steve off the bench , i dont care but please get rid of this piece of crap alston he is horrible , all you have to do is back off of him and he will shoot a brick. This team will never go anywhere with him in the rotation. Les grow some balls and step in and amit you made a mistake , and terminate rafer and fire adelman and start over!!!!!!!!

Later

P.S.

I don’t care what yall say about how good the signal is on 1560, I still drive everyday from 59n and little york to 290 and little york and the signal sucks it is a shame i still have to listen to 610 because all the static on 1560 gives me a headache!

If your drive is before 7 AM, then it is going to be a problem until the FCC approves our new night signal. Right around 290 is a problem area for us though. They are trying to work on it. All the fans wanted JVG gone and now he’s gone. Good luck with Adelman who is a bad fit with this roster.

Zierlein — I think I have lost my mind. As I watched my Tigers lose in an unusually predictable fashion, and the talks mount about our coach, The Hat, I simply cannot get a movie scene out of my head. I can’t make sense of it, maybe you can help:I keep replaying the scene from My Cousin Vinny, as Vinny is debating what he should wear to go deer hunting, and Mona Lisa utters this gem:”Imagine you’re a deer. You’re prancin’ through the forest, you spot a little brook, you put your deer lips down to the cool, clear water, and BAM! A bullet rips off part of your *****n’ head! Your brains are lyin’ all over the ground in little bloody pieces. Now I ax ya, would you give a **** what kind of pants the SOB who shot yas was wearin’???”Please help.

I think it is an analogy that your subconcious is evoking where LSU… and more importantly Miles…. is the deer that will have its head blown off and the hunter with the pants is Miles. Stay with me. It doesn’t matter who the hunter is or what he has on because you know deep down in your heart that this team wasn’t going to be able to drink from the BCS brook because it wasn’t meant to be.

I know that you are no longer the Houston Texans communist radio, but you still can’t shake the Horns communist radio network. This Texas team was not very good all season, their coaches are not smart. Greg Davis should be fired, I’m an Aggie and every time on an important play on 3rd down, I prayed they would take Charles out…and when they did the did not get the 1st down. Texas could have won the game if they would have followed my game plan Charles right, Charles left, Charles up the middle, but thank the Aggie Gods they are silly texas coaches still looking for the next VY.

Good day for the Aggie Nation. A win versus Texas! A great win vs. Ohio State!!! and Fran leaves!!!

Did I mention 38 -30 ? Get used to it Horn fans, it’s a leap year too!!!

Lance, How is that crow you ate instead of left over turkey after T+1. 38-30. The score was no indication of the thrashing. The Aggie actually won 3 times on Friday. A thrashing of Texas, Ohio Syate in BB, and Fran resigning. Not to many days you can go 3-0.

Once again, the college predictions were John Harris’. Reading is fundamental.

Thanks for that Public Service Announcement Lazarus, I now know that abnormal behavior in the animal world is NOTHING to play around with, and I am forever thankful. Lance, any chance you turn that into one of your PSA spots on 1560?

As I was typing this the Browns just made that interception, that was bullsh*t, the defender hit Driessen (sp?) early, that was a PI. Why didn’t the announcers even mention this?

I am an Aggie, and would just like to say that I agreed w/ the John Harris pre-game analysis. A&M had looked like total crap all year, so who thought it would be any diff. I know THIS game was a rivalry game, but plenty of games this year should have had A&M highly motivated.

Before the game, I thought the A&M defense would play well, since they have looked much improved lately. But the offense has been absolutely terrible lately, and I know I thought that was going to be much of the same on Friday.

Honestly, how many Aggie fans (or anyone for that matter) predicted the game to play out the way it did? Who would have thought 40 mins T.O.P. & 533 yds offense (362 yds of which were passing)? If anyone says they predicted that, they are lying.

But congrats to the A&M team, good luck to Fran in the future, and here’s to having the T+1 rivalry game get back to a meaningful one.

The bottom line is that this game was very similar to last year’s in that the Ags just came out and played more physically than the Longhorns. Nothing changed from the 2006 game to the 2007 game. Congrats on the win. You get rid of your coach and get a win over the Horns. Good weekend for the Ags.